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enArt, love and war at the 2015 British Science Festivalhttps://plus.maths.org/content/art-love-and-war-2015-british-science-festival
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Are you queueing in an airport, wondering if there is a better way to deal with the mass of humanity trying to board planes? Are you stuck at home wondering where the summer weather has gone? Would you like to see our information overloaded world in a more beautiful way? Do you think the world would be a better place if we made lovely maths, instead of war? Then you should book your place for the <a href="http://www.britishsciencefestival.org/">2015 British Science Festival</a>
</p><p><a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/art-love-and-war-2015-british-science-festival" target="_blank">read more</a></p>https://plus.maths.org/content/art-love-and-war-2015-british-science-festival#commentsFP-belowWed, 29 Jul 2015 11:44:02 +0000Rachel6402 at https://plus.maths.org/contentFarewell to John Nashhttps://plus.maths.org/content/farewell-john-nash
<p>On May 23rd John Nash sadly <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32865248">died in a car crash</a>, along with his wife Alicia. To the wider world Nash was famous as the main character of the book and film <em><a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/beautiful-mind-film-review">A beautiful mind</a></em>, and to mathematicians for his important work in game theory, geometry and the theory of differential equations. Nash won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 and was awarded the prestigious Abel Prize only this year. Here are three <em>Plus</em> articles that shed light on some of his work.</p><p><a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/farewell-john-nash" target="_blank">read more</a></p>https://plus.maths.org/content/farewell-john-nash#commentsTue, 26 May 2015 10:52:04 +0000mf3446372 at https://plus.maths.org/contentMaths and art live in Bradfordhttps://plus.maths.org/content/live-maths-and-art-bradford
<div class="rightimage" style="max-width: 150px;"><img src="https://plus.maths.org/content/sites/plus.maths.org/files/articles/2014/john/cover.jpg" alt="Book cover" width="150" height="221"/><p>Barrow's new book.</p></div>
<p>Ever wondered why diamonds sparkle? Or why an egg is egg shaped?</p><p><a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/live-maths-and-art-bradford" target="_blank">read more</a></p>https://plus.maths.org/content/live-maths-and-art-bradford#commentsTue, 21 Apr 2015 08:58:47 +0000mf3446354 at https://plus.maths.org/contentMaths in a minute: Modular arithmetichttps://plus.maths.org/content/maths-minute-modular-arithmetic
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<p>You do modular arithmetic several times every day when you are thinking about time. Imagine, for example, you're going on a train trip at 11pm that lasts three hours. What time will you arrive? Not at 11+3 = 14 o'clock, but at 2 o'clock in the morning. That's because, on a 12-hour clock, you start counting from the beginning again after you get to 12.<p><a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-minute-modular-arithmetic" target="_blank">read more</a></p>https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-minute-modular-arithmetic#commentsmodular arithmeticWed, 01 Apr 2015 11:23:57 +0000mf3446342 at https://plus.maths.org/contentMaths in three minutes: Groupshttps://plus.maths.org/content/maths-a-minute-groups
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<p>One way to start getting your head around groups, those slightly
scary abstract structures that belong to the field of algebra, is to
think of a 12-hour clock. You can add hours on this
clock, for example </p>
<p>2 o'clock + 4 hours = 6 o'clock</br>
8 o'clock + 5 hours = 1 o'clock</br>
3 o'clock + 12 hours = 3 o'clock</p><p><a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-a-minute-groups" target="_blank">read more</a></p>https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-a-minute-groups#commentsgroup theoryFri, 27 Mar 2015 12:23:01 +0000mf3446343 at https://plus.maths.org/contentBeautiful physicshttps://plus.maths.org/content/beautiful-physics
<p>In our <a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/researching-unknown">Researching the unknown</a> project we explored what physicists at <a href="http://ph.qmul.ac.uk">Queen Mary University of London</a> get up to. As part of the project the designer <a href="http://www.charlestrevelyan.com">Charles Trevelyan</a> produced these four beautiful posters, which are our images of the week. Feel free to download and print them out, to adorn your classroom, bedroom or wherever you'd like to see them! Simply click on the images to download a pdf.</p><p><a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/beautiful-physics" target="_blank">read more</a></p>https://plus.maths.org/content/beautiful-physics#commentsimage of the weekphysicsThu, 26 Mar 2015 16:16:41 +0000mf3446340 at https://plus.maths.org/content